Lauren Wright

VP of Sales, Net Purpose · 1 appearance on the record.

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Lauren Wright is an enterprise revenue and sales leader who serves as VP of Sales at Net Purpose. She previously scaled Demodesk as VP of Revenue and led EMEA sales at Glassdoor ahead of its acquisition.

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Wright: Early sales must focus on immediate customers, not VC TAM pitch

“The reality is, you go and pitch to VCs and you tell them, you know, this is a huge blue ocean. We have so much TAM. This is a ninety, hundred billion dollar problem. But the reality is, you need to really come in and say, okay, who are the customers that I ca…”

Lauren Wright Sep 6, 2022 ▶ 11:33 Navigating the Rocky Road from Founder-Led Sales to The First Dozen Sales Professionals | Demodesk

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Wright: International expansion forces SaaS startups to redefine their ICP

“This problem kind of comes out again as you're trying to go maybe international. I certainly had this happen when I was launching a team in Europe, and had a repeatable process in the U.S., but suddenly our ICP was slightly different, and I had to redefine tha…”

Lauren Wright Sep 6, 2022 ▶ 13:20 Navigating the Rocky Road from Founder-Led Sales to The First Dozen Sales Professionals | Demodesk

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Wright: Scale sales hiring only when 80% of reps hit 80% quota

“So I think the magic number is 80% of the team get to 80% to quota or higher, which is hard to do. There are many, many teams that are fully scaled And not hitting 50% quota. So it's very hard to do that magic number, and if you hit that magic number, then, yo…”

Lauren Wright Sep 6, 2022 ▶ 15:24 Navigating the Rocky Road from Founder-Led Sales to The First Dozen Sales Professionals | Demodesk

Insight

Wright: Sales playbooks fail without missionary early hires

“And absolutely nothing, none of this works, even if you have the perfect playbooks and you have the perfect tool stack, none of this works if you can't figure out hiring. In fact, if you screw up a lot of other things, which you inevitably will do, we all do, …”

Lauren Wright Sep 6, 2022 ▶ 19:15 Navigating the Rocky Road from Founder-Led Sales to The First Dozen Sales Professionals | Demodesk

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Lauren Wright: On average, one in four sales reps fails

“One in four reps fail. That's the average.”

Lauren Wright Sep 6, 2022 ▶ 18:59 Navigating the Rocky Road from Founder-Led Sales to The First Dozen Sales Professionals | Demodesk

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Navigating the Rocky Road from Founder-Led Sales to The First Dozen Sales Professionals \|	Sep 6, 2022	15m

Lauren Wright

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